Motivation

Circle activity is the most motivating avtivities for me. in my case, it is playing drum, because I can get the result of my efforts as an observable objects and. When I have a music concert, my parties encourage me to play better, and after finishing it, they praise me, then I feel intrinsic rewards like acievement or confidence. It can be my happiness and motivation to improve my skills. And I hope that I can apply it to studying foreign languages.

Answer

I think group A will solve it quicker than B.
When group A solve this problem, they want the reward quicker. If there are another challenger, they group A will work harder to get the rewards, so the problem is just a process, and thier purpose is to get reward.
On the contrary, group B enjoy solving the problem, so their purpose is to enjoy it, so time is not prblem for them.
So I think group A will solve it quicker than B.

Answer to the Candle problem

In this picture, there are many pins and match, and box, so at first, I attach the pin box to the wall by the pins. Second, stick the candle by using pin from the bottom of the box.
So, I think the candle's wax will not drop onto the table.
It took me 30 minutes to answer.

I think the powerful motivation are reward or satisfaction.
Satisfaction are often got by being praised, and the desire to be praised is naturally strong greed of human, so it is good enough to be the reason for the question.
Next, I will talking about reward as a motivation.
Conversely, many people don't want to do job unless it is interesting for them, without reward.
I think people are often encourage to do something by their greed or goal.

No reservation, Ireland.

I saw the movie about Ireland. In this movie, the Irish chef traveled all over the world and learned various types of food, and created original dishes. And Irish traditional food, potatoes are also spread all over the world. So I think that food globalization is also happend in Ireland. According to the movie, the chef created new dishes by taking in the concept of foreign food, Japanese, Chinese and other oriental food.
From this Movie, I learn that cultural mix some time creates new beter results.

Answer to the question

I agree the Fukushima's opinion. Actually, I can't help feeling that many Japanese tend not to study abroad by seeing recent news. I also think many Japanese are naturally conservative and less challenge spirits. Trying to study abroad seems to be very good chance to widen our knowledge, language ability and view.

Ansewer to the final question

His speech told me that I should keep my best efforts to achive the continuous success and avoid being lazy, and even if I reach great success, it is important not to be arrogant

Recently, I'll chalenges to do many events in my school life, for example volunteer, club ativities, and studying, so I'm very busy. However, I believe that these challenges will improve me. I have many thing to do now, so at least during summer vacation, I have no time to be free.

Final Blob Assignment

According to Richard, he got much money and bought expensive car,so he came to become boastful. Because of such a bad attitude, he lost all trust from his emplyees and failed to manage his business.
I think his speech was kind of argumentative essay, and its thesis statement was 'Success isn't the one way. It is a continuous jouney.', because he explain what way lead us success or failure by talking his episode, so his speech's main poin't is that you should act the principles which he said to reach the continuous success.

the web

I often use the Internet to enjoy movie, study, and search something I want to know, so I use the Internet every day. When I try to write academic essays, I often collect references by it, so it is essential tool for my studying.
My favorite web site is You Tube, because I can enjoy so many various videos, for example music video, old drama or animation, and academic contents by free.

Multitasking

First, when I manage my school tasks, I often check each deadline, and try to finish the homework which is the highest priority. I'll make enough time to finish it, for example reducing the days of part-time job, doing tasks in liblary, or starting it as early as I can. However, even if I do my best, I often have a trouble doing tasks.
To do my academic tasks more efficiently, I want my teachers to tell me about tests or academic essays as soon as possoble, and I can do enough preparation.

Answer to 1 'New Boy'

I think the story tell me the beginning of friendship of children. At the beginning of this story, the new kid from Africa seemed to be confused to the new school and friends. However, after he had a little opportunity, he made friends with some children. I think the filmmaker would tell even if the new boy come to new class, he can get along with others by seizing an opportunity, so I thought it was not so heavy story. The most favorite scene was when the new boy and other children were kept standing outside of the class room as a punishment. They made friends with each other throgh sharing the experiences.
But I couldn't understand the scene which the African teacher was arrested by soldirs. What did it show me? I want to know the detail.

Using mobile phone

Using mobile phone on public space is often seen as a bad manner, but the wilder they are spreaded, the softer the recognision to them is. In my opinion, mailing on public spaces is acceptable, because it will not annoy people around you. Though some people may think do using it is annoying for them, but cosidering the importance of the mobile phone, they should reconsider them, I think. Such a prejudice are often appeared in older person, I think.

The country I want to go

The country I want to visit is Germany. Germany is one of the most developped countries in the world, and it has long history, culture and technology. Especially, I'm really interested in its scenery. When I saw the picutures of germany's towns, I admired its wonderful scenery which gave me the impression of the midieval times. Then, I came to want to visit germany. If I visited it, I would enjoy seeing the beautiful scenery and eating traditinal food. I really want to go there right now!!

The media impact on my life

Today, people are surrounded by many media, and they became the essential factors in thier life. In my case, I was really surprised at the video clips.
Because of the development of the internet, we came to be able to watch many videos as you like and without any cost. For example, "You Tube" is very famous. In this web site, many people can watch videos. In addition, the videos are uploaded by common people around the world, so we can enjoy many kind of videos. In my case, I often watch music videos of my favorite singers.
Some years ago, we couldn't use such a wonderful entertainment, so I can't help surprising at the development of the Internet.

Answer to b: Dialect

Even in Japan, I can find cultural differences from place to place. Especially, the differences of dialect is very interesting and surprising subject. In Japan, there are many unique dialect, and people sometime can't understand what they said.
In my case, I recognized the differences when I was 9 years ago. About 10 years ago, I moved from Yokohama to Amagasaki. At that time, I was very surprised that all of the people I talked to spoke strange words. It was very hard for me to get accustomed to it, but I can't still use Kansai dialect very well.
I think these are come from the diversity of local cultures. In Japan, cultures have their own characteristics by region from ancient time, so sometime they have different viewpoint about one thing. In such a situation, It is not so strange that there are many dialects.

2nd year

A year has passed since I entered KGU. Last year, I worried about the new life, but now, I have got accustomed to it. I'm having a good campus life. The differences between this year and last year is that I'm having a definit goal now. I want to do a study abroad program. Many other students plan to do it this year, but I still can't do it. I'm very regrettable, but I shouldn't be so disappointing. I'm different from others and I believe that I will be given my own way, so I have to do my best this year.